Linear Referencing - Ridership Analysis

AnandRao

Hi,

I have a circular bus route polyline feature class and associated bus stop point feature class. Bus stops have information on boarding and alighting data for each stop. Would like to build a Linear Referencing System and utilize dynamic segmentation to visualize the ridership along the specified bus route. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

RichardFairhurst

You should use some tolerance distance with the tool in case the bus stop points are not exactly on the line (even the slightest offset will prevent events from being generated).  You have to create a geodatabase topology to get your lines and points to snap with enough precision that you could use a tolerance of 0.

If that still does not work, make sure both the lines and points are in the same projection and try selecting features in both layers as inputs to the Locate Features Along Route tool.

If none of that works, post a screenshot picture of what you have created.  It may reveal something I have not thought about.

One other note.  I explicitly set the M tolerance and M Resolution in the geoprocessing environment to at least 0.01 and 0.001 respectively before running the Create Route tool to make sure the measures are precise and not just whole number measures.